Full Sail Limited Edition Lager (LTD 02)

Brewed by Full Sail Brewing Company
Style: Premium Lager
Hood River, Oregon USA

From a 6er purchased at Nugget on Mace in Davis, CA. Floral, aromatic, grainy, cereal-like aromas present in the nose. There is a light sweetness. Golden-orange twinged body wit a smallish white head present. Lightly sweet, malty, creamy, grainy, toasted cereal-like flavors to start. A little milkiness present in the middle. Light, grassy, light bitter hops to finish. A crisp, clean lager that could very well be the same thing as their Session Lager...

bottle, golden amber with some foam, this hits a really good balance of not being too malty or too hoppy, very nice lager

Heavily carbonated orange body. Minimal white head. Malt and water on the nose. Body much better than LTD 01. Sweet malt body with some hops flying in and out.

New to [MY PART OF TAMPA SMARTASS!] Tampa as of May 24th 2007. Fairly high concentration malt aroma with a lot of floral hops and even some ale like fruit notes. The body is a watery copper color and holds a diminishing, thumb thick, white head. Malt, ample bittering hops, pear and apple with a fairly damn stiff alcohol kick going on. Almost bock tasting, but with way more hops than a typical bock. The finish is clean and abrupt. The aftertaste is bitter hops. I think this a pretty damn quilty beer here.

pours an amber/orange under a large creamy off-white head. light malty aroma with some bubblegum scented hops. very malty flavor with a doughy, cookie character. medium-full bodied with sharp carbonation. light hops and alcohol show up as well. this is best suited for cool to cold weather...its no summer sipper!

Clear gold. Creamy layer of fine white foam adorns the glass. Honeysuckle, toffee, and honey-drizzled hay fill the nose. Ever so slightly minerally (lead) and flowery. Dense carbonation. Twinge of acidity is immediately cut by a lush surge of toasted biscuits and sweet honey-drizzled hay. Subdued stewed peach fruitiness is perfectly offset by the layered maltiness. Hint of popcorn comes and goes, but manages to taint some of the brighter malt nuances. Floral hops impart sufficient body and flavor, but little in the way of bitterness. Finishes amply chewy and sharply grassy, yet tingly and slightly grainy. Liberal dose of Munich malt generates a lingering blend of biting toffee and hay. Pretty solid stuff. Now if they would just stop filtering their lagers, this would possibly be something to rave about.

Cheers to Terminus for picking this beer up for me at the brewery. Pours light bronze with a beige head. The aroma has smooth toasted Vienna-like malt presence, good amount of spicy hops and a hint of butterscotch. Medium body with some lushness that is offset by graininess and semi-soft carbonation. The flavor begins with roasted caramel malt, some nuttiness and some light syrup traits. The finish has some spicy hops and a nice crisp sharpness. An enjoyable lager.

My first ’Full Sail’. Brownish orange yellow. No findable date code on the bottle. Just says bottling number "02" on it. Aroma of regular old american lager, no adjuncts detected, thankfully. The look of it is not ubiquitous pale yellow american lager, it’s more orange and brown than that. A fairly friendly lager with some sweet helles attributes. Finish is typical helles, candylike in its taste with little bitterness in its character. Friendly and fairly well mannered. Finish is not ill mannered and is quit palateble, very little bitterness detected here.